Dan Crenshaw Quotes

I spent a whole career infiltrating places.

We bring the fight to the enemy so that they don’t bring it to us.

I need the VA to be flexible enough to send me outside for care.

AOC understands how to be famous. It’s got to be natural. It’s genuine.

I dreamed even after I laid down my rifle I would continue to uphold my oath to defend the Constitution.

This is the way that I like to phrase it: we want to focus on 100% of the problem, and you can only focus on 100% of global emissions if you have technology that is exportable, clean, reliable, and cheap.

When Democrats are proposing things like a Green New Deal and Medicare for all and proposing that they take away your private insurance… it’s very obvious to people that they’ve gone in a radical direction that will not work.

I have a thick skin.

It’s OK to criticize Israeli policy.

I mean, the idea of a government shutdown, it’s a consequence of our system.

Rebuilding the civic fabric of Central American countries is the only long-term solution to stemming the flow of illegal migration, and without Mexico as a willing partner, the U.S. will continue to fight an impossibly uphill battle.

The Turks have not been historically good about keeping pressure on ISIS.

Anybody who questions the validity of the Constitution, whether it works in the modern era, should never be president.

In Afghanistan and Iraq we would often get cowardly fire and rounds hitting us from the sides but we just hunker down and keep going, we don’t turn the mission around.

Houston’s been getting flooded for a very long time. We always have to prepare for disasters and we have to do this in a very bipartisan way.

If you think winning means a porous border with 400,000 people apprehended illegally every year, then your definition of winning is different than mine.

We’ve got to think long-term too because I don’t think Trump speaks to a lot of young people.

Everybody has a purpose in this world.

You know they’ve come to this point where they want to blame climate change for quite literally everything now, and sorry, but the Green New Deal is not going to solve that.

Victory looks like no more September 11ths.

When you label them, when one of the most powerful social media companies in the world labels people as Nazis, you could make the argument that’s inciting violence.

When you call somebody a Nazi, you can make the argument that you’re inciting violence and here’s how: As a country, we all agree that Nazis are bad. We actually invaded an entire continent to defeat the Nazis.

The president is under no obligation to sign the spending bills that Congress gives to him. And once that happens, once he says no, then you’re supposed to negotiate.

When you say ‘never forget’ to a veteran, you are implying that, as an American, you are in it with them.

I have always disliked it when politicians start pandering to veterans and telling us how bad we have it and that if we just vote for them that they will fix all of our problems.

I retired in 2016 as a Lieutenant Commander and immediately went to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Veterans tend to want to be ultra-prepared. They want to know everything they possibly can before running for Congress. That’s great… but don’t undersell yourself.

Americans can forgive one another.

You should absolutely get involved, especially those local politics like school board seats. That’s really where America happens.

Our good intentions have gotten in our own way and it’s bad for immigrants.

If you get your teeth cleaned on Instagram live, it shows that you’re just out of touch. That doesn’t make you relatable or cool. It just makes you weird.

There’s bipartisan efforts to change how FEMA works or, more importantly, change how relief funding trickles down to us down here.

When we come up upon a wall, it matters. We have to plan around it. It’s a mitigating factor if you’re trying to enter or cross from point A to point B.

As veterans we should be smarter about how we talk about things.

Every country has the right to manage who comes in and out of those borders.

Labeling someone as an ‘-ist’ who believes in an ‘-ism’ because of the person’s policy preference is just a shortcut to playground-style name-calling, cloaked in political terminology.

Give the benefit of the doubt to your opponents if they walk back a controversial statement.

The left is really good at selling bad ideas and the right is really bad at selling good ideas.

One must be deliberately ignoring reality to pretend that our asylum process is not being abused.

I know from my experience as a Navy SEAL that barriers work.

It’s so easy to trigger everyone these days, especially if you mention President Donald Trump.

The Green New Deal is for elitists who live in their high rises in New York City and see a dirty world around them because they’re in New York City. I said New York City can pass a Green New Deal… Why not try it? Why not try it?

The allies we formerly relied on – the Kurds and the Syrian Democratic Forces – will have little interest in helping us after we abandon them to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

It’s OK to say whatever you want. It’s a free country. And it’s also OK for the rest of us to say ‘We don’t like what you’re saying.’ That’s actually our job as members of Congress.

There’s a knee jerk reaction in Washington when something isn’t perfect to just add more money, add more personnel, it’ll all be OK. That’s not true, especially with complex issues like veterans health care.

Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.

It is a miracle that I can see at all and continue serving the American people.

Politicians should aim for higher discourse, the media should report context instead of seeking to inflame the public, and the public should not reward bad behavior nor engage in it on social media.

The asylum process is being completely taken advantage of.

Destroying an entire energy industry, that hurts the working class.

I will attack ideas very hard. I am not shy about that one bit. So I don’t want people to think that because I had a call for civility that that means I shy away from debate and that I’m agreeable. That’s not the case. What is the case is that I will not question who you are as a person.

I want you to say ‘Never Forget’ because when you say ‘Never Forget’ you’re thanking that veteran in a different way. You’re allowing them to be thankful for the idea for the fact that as an American you’re in it with them. We’re in it together and we don’t forget together.

Flooding is the most urgent issue that Houstonians are facing.

We are not anti-immigration. We are against chain migration, except for the nuclear family. We want a merit-based system that is really based on economic needs.